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‘Alien: Romulus’ Review: The Primal Shock and Awe Is Gone, but It’s a Good Video-Game Horror Ride
Cailee Spaeny stars in the seventh entry in the franchise, directed by Fede Álvarez as a nerve-jangling greatest-hits throwback. It works.
The director, Fede Álvarez(“Don’t Breathe,” the “Evil Dead” remake), is a visually brash, dramatically pedestrian showman who stages the alien encounters with a welter of practical effects, which in this retro era tends to get some viewers as excited as a Gen-X hipster cooing over his vinyl collection. In a terrific sequence set in an anti-gravity zone, Rain lays waste to this monster army with a mega machine gun, leaving yellow acid blood hanging in blotches in the air. But it’s the final act of “Alien: Romulus” that’s designed to get audience eyes popping: a birth sequence that nods to “Prometheus” and ties the series together, though what’s best about it is simply the flair with which Álvarez stages a lone-woman-vs.-humanoid-alien showdown.
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